The Midland Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 March 1992. Commercial. 3 related planning applications.

The Midland Bank

WRENN ID
gaunt-flint-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Llanelli MP: Dame Nia Griffith (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 March 1992
Type
Commercial
Address
The Midland Bank, 1 Station Road, Llanelli, SA15 2SL
OS grid reference
SN 505 001
Coordinates
51.68029, -4.16319
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Midland Bank is a building from the early 20th century located on Station Road. The front facade features projected outer bays with pediments against blind parapets and a balustraded central section. The ground floor is faced with Portland stone, showcasing channelled rustication and raised channelled pilasters at the center. It has arched windows with coved reveals, stone sills, keystones, and a Bath stone cornice. The upper floor is constructed with blue lias walling and Bath stone dressings. The outer bays have channelled angle piers and windows framed in moulded architraves with segmental pediments on brackets, while the center has three similar windows topped with triangular pediments. The building is adorned with a rich entablature and a modillion cornice that projects over the outer bays and steps out over the angle piers. The balustrade features panelled pedestals, and the parapet behind the outer pediments has panelled spandrels.

The John Street front is simpler, lacking the pedimented forward breaks, and has four windows, with the second bay being narrower and featuring an open pedimented doorcase dated 1912. The entrance bay has a recessed convex curve with cornices that wrap around. The first floor is entirely clad in Bath stone, flanked by Corinthian columns on each side, and has a recessed convex two-light window with curved sashes, a center mullion, a moulded cornice, and a convex panel above adorned with carved ornate festoons. The ground floor is made of Portland stone, featuring a large cornice and a convex pediment, which is decorated with lion heads flanking a central cartouche monogrammed 'MBWL'. This full-width pediment is supported by two Ionic columns with red granite shafts, with concave curved walling behind the door.

The building has 20th-century doors and windows, and old photographs indicate that the upper windows originally had paired small paned sashes. The interior has been altered.

Local climate

The Midland Bank sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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